Building Good Habitats Solution

by Ata Gurpinar

This is a metapuzzle and uses the answers to the puzzles in this round.

Puzzle	Solution
Alphablock Soup	BUTTERNUT SQUASH
Simple Rounds	CROAKS LIKE A TOAD
Stuck Together	ELMER'S WHITE GLUE
Word Wide Web	PUBLISHING FIRMS

Each puzzle answer is fifteen letters with a three-letter tree as substring in it. The answers can be arranged into 3x5 blocks so that the tree is excluded from the four planks of wood:

The blueprint for the lodge must be filled as a crisscross using these entries, whose clues are provided in alphabetical order by answer:

• Places to be outside while upstairs (9) - BALCONIES
• A chamber for serving large feasts (7 4) - BANQUET HALL
• Squishy alternatives to chair or sofas (8) - BEANBAGS
• Tools for collecting carpentry material (9) - CHAINSAWS
• Something to keep the door locked (8) - DEADBOLT
• Something for guests to press (8) - DOORBELL
• Somewhere to prepare food (7) - KITCHEN
• Somewhere for rockets to take off (9) - LAUNCHPAD
• A bathroom alternative (8) - OUTHOUSE
• Something to put in front of a stage (10) - PROSCENIUM
• Tiles for the roof (8) - SHINGLES
• A recordplayer, maybe for a DJ (9) - TURNTABLE

The shaded cells in this diagram represent the pieces of wood that come from the puzzle answers. (The easier version of this puzzle provides these pieces already shaded so that solvers know where the puzzle answer pieces go.)

Fifteen of those pieces have one cell sticking out of the diagram, unused by any entry. In clockwise order starting in the middle-top, they spell the solution LUMBER TOWARDS IT.